Finland is named the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published Thursday.

Other Nordic countries are also once again at the top of the happiness rankings in the annual report published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Besides Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden remain the top four and in the same order.

Country rankings were based on answers people give when asked to rate their own lives. The study was done in partnership with the analytics firm Gallup and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

When it comes to decreasing happiness — or growing unhappiness —the United States has dropped to its lowest-ever position at 24, having previously peaked at 11th place in 2012. The report states that the number of people dining alone in the United States has increased 53% over the past two decades.

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Author: Donald Earl Collins
Published on: 27/03/2025 | 00:00:00

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The 20th-century idea of an “American Dream” is mostly dead in the second quarter of the 21st. The richest 10 percent of Americans drove half of all US consumer spending (about $10 trillion) between September 2023 and September 2024. 12.7 million households could collectively outspend much of the rest of the nation. By the measure of most experts, the economic power of ordinary Americans peaked sometime between 1970 and 1974. More than six out of 10 Americans could claim middle-class status, and Black, Latinx, and other Americans of colour had begun to climb into the US middle class in larger numbers. The combination of higher unemployment and higher inflation ended a three-decade run of endless US economic dominance and prosperity. Reagan claimed in his diary in 1982 that the press is dying to paint him as now trying to undo the New Deal. For years, Reagan alleged that fascism was really the basis for the new deal. Reagan said the opposition party, and particularly those of a liberal persuasion, have dominated the political debate. Corporate taxes are at an all-time low of 21 percent as of the Trump tax cuts during his first term in office. These policies have led to a massive shift in wealth from middle-class, working-class to impoverished Americans, towards the rich and massive corporations. Between 1975 and 2018, tax cuts and social welfare austerity had led to nearly $50 trillion transfer of wealth from the bottom 90 percent of Americans to the top 10 percent in wealth. The US, then, is back to its pre-Great Depression economy. Except that in 2025, it’s an economy in which the consumer habits of the wealthiest 10 percent have an outsized influence compared with the bottom 300 million Americans. This was the end goal of wealthy Americans pretty much all along, with help from both political parties.

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I just don't like it.

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A flurry of new exchange traded funds is widening retail access to the fast-growing markets for private credit and equity, sparking concerns that these assets are a poor fit for small-scale investors and could prove tough to sell during a crisis.

A private credit ETF launched last month by State Street will hold up to 35 per cent of its portfolio in private debt deals originated by Apollo Global Management. Fixed-income specialist BondBloxx, meanwhile, has applied for regulatory approval for an ETF that could hold up to 80 per cent of its portfolio in private credit. 

But the US Securities and Exchange Commission last month raised a number of concerns about the State Street launch, enquiring about plans for mitigating liquidity risk and ensuring accurate pricing. 

While the regulator eventually signed off on the fund after State Street provided more information and changed the name, many industry executives remain unconvinced that assets typically bought by investors who can lock up capital for years are suited to daily liquidity fund vehicles that, until now, have mostly held easy-to-sell securities

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• A jetlagged Troy Hunt accidentally clicked a link and logged into an account only to realise he had been phished.
• Despite reacting quickly, attackers were able to export a mailing list for Hunt’s personal blog.
• Hunt has detailed the attack and warned his subscribers in a timely fashion.

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• 5 x BLTs
• 7 x PMs
• 1 x PBC
• 1 x FBD
• 1 x MBH

If Valrak's Combat Patrol leak is correct (LoV, Tallyman, 3 DLTs, 7 PMs and a Rhino) then Grandfather is indeed truly generous.